I don't know about our neighbours, but all I use is a PIR-activated sprinkler to deter cats from pooing on my wife's herb garden.
If our neighbours use anything, at least our cat seems unaffected. What sort of deterrents were you thinking about? The only one I have heard of is anti-freeze, which isn't so much of a deterrent than a barbaric killer.
Glad your cat is ok. I'm no expert, but a few suggestions on here in the past have been quite alarming and I've often thought about whether folk actually think about the potential wider implications to wildlife.
I can't think of anything people would use to deter cats that would have an obvious link to frog deaths, though slug pellets and herbicides might be a factor.
Is a fantastic website on all things amphibian. They have an extensive section on frog disease which is organised into which season you are finding diseased/dead amphibians with pictures.
Its also a generally all round good website for anyone interested in garden amphibian wildlife.
Just as an aside, a few days ago I noticed two enormous piles of frog spawn, and I mean enormous, each one must be ten times as big as a frog! How can a frog (or even two) produce so much?
It comes out much more compact and then swells up in the water. Clever eh? I know of a couple of ponds hidden away deep in woodlands where the spawn is so thick one feels like you could almost walk over it.
I just wondered where it all came from.......well, I know where it comes from, but how did it all get there?.......well, I suppose I know that as well........
I have found three dead frogs near my pond this Spring and I have never had them before. I have read online that they are getting a disease. This is very worrying. I live in Surrey.
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I don't know about our neighbours, but all I use is a PIR-activated sprinkler to deter cats from pooing on my wife's herb garden.
If our neighbours use anything, at least our cat seems unaffected. What sort of deterrents were you thinking about? The only one I have heard of is anti-freeze, which isn't so much of a deterrent than a barbaric killer.
Glad your cat is ok. I'm no expert, but a few suggestions on here in the past have been quite alarming and I've often thought about whether folk actually think about the potential wider implications to wildlife.
I can't think of anything people would use to deter cats that would have an obvious link to frog deaths, though slug pellets and herbicides might be a factor.
froglife.org
Is a fantastic website on all things amphibian. They have an extensive section on frog disease which is organised into which season you are finding diseased/dead amphibians with pictures.
Its also a generally all round good website for anyone interested in garden amphibian wildlife.
Just as an aside, a few days ago I noticed two enormous piles of frog spawn, and I mean enormous, each one must be ten times as big as a frog! How can a frog (or even two) produce so much?
It comes out much more compact and then swells up in the water. Clever eh?
I know of a couple of ponds hidden away deep in woodlands where the spawn is so thick one feels like you could almost walk over it. 
Thanks Gemma. That makes a lot of sense.
I just wondered where it all came from.......well, I know where it comes from, but how did it all get there?.......well, I suppose I know that as well........
well, you know what I mean!
I have found three dead frogs near my pond this Spring and I have never had them before. I have read online that they are getting a disease. This is very worrying. I live in Surrey.
Having four die in short order last autumn, that crossed my mind too. However, no more since then and, as I mentioned, two enormous heaps of spawn!
Hopefully, you may not have any more either. Someone earlier suggested overcrowding or exhaustion from copulation (lucky blighters!).